Articles
America History & Life	America History and Life provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada. It indexes over 2000 English language journals. Indexing goes back to 1964. This database also includes book and media reviews.
World Political Science Abstracts	Builds on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI. Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
Greenville News	Greenville News coverage of all staff-written news, regional news, business news, sports and feature articles (arts and lifestyle), as well as editorials, letters to the editor and obituaries. 1999-present.
Reader's Guide Retrospective	Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature indexes 240 magazines--the ones most often found in school, public, and college library collections, as well as the New York Times (late New York edition). The index entries include subject links to the actual page of citations in the printed Reader's Guide. 1890-1982.
New York Times Historical	Searchable full image of every page of the New York Daily Times and New York Times including all advertisements. 1851-1999.
AP Multimedia Archive	Contains over 700,000 Associated Press photos, most of which are contemporary images made since late 1995, and grows daily as hundreds of new photos enter the Multimedia Archive from AP's worldwide picture report. Also includes graphics, maps, illustrations and logos prepared by Associated Press graphic artists.
Contemporary Women's Issues	Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessible.
Humanities Abstracts	Humanities Abstracts indexes about 400 English language journals in a wide variety of subjects including history, archaeology, classical studies, folklore, and religion. Indexing goes back to 1984. About 96 of the journals indexed are full text.
Alternative Press Index	Alternative Press Index indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe	Includes the full text of articles from major sources of information on general news, companies, industries & markets, government & politics, legislation, countries and states, biographies, reference, medicine and health, accounting, auditing and taxes.
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Bibliographies
A bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538-1825; being a guide to published lists of early immigrants to North America	Reference Collection - Z7164.I3 L2 1963
The immigrant woman in North America : an annotated bibliography of selected references	Reference Collection - Z7964.U49 C67 1985
Immigrants and their children in the United States : a bibliography of doctoral dissertations, 1885-1982	Reference Collection - Z7164.I3 H63 1986
Demography of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States : an annotated bibliography with a review essay	Reference Collection - Z1361.E4 M65 1984
A Buried past; an annotated bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection	Reference Collection - Z1361.J2 B87 1974
A Comprehensive Bibliography for the Study of American Minorities	Reference Collection - E184.A1 M529 1976
Islam in North America : a sourcebook	Reference Collection - BP67.A1 I82 1992
American ethnic groups and the revival of cultural pluralism; evaluative sourcebook for the 1970's	Reference Collection - Z7164.R12 K5
American Jewish history : a bibliographical guide	Reference Collection - Z6373.U5 G87 1983
Brief ethnic bibliography : an annotated guide to the ethnic experience in the United States	Reference Collection - Z1361.E4 B37
A Buried past; an annotated bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection	Reference Collection - Z1361.J2 B87 1974
Ethnicity and nationality : a bibliographic guide	Reference Collection - Z5118.E84 B46
The Italian-American experience; an annotated and classified bibliographical guide, with selected publications of the Casa Italiana Educational Bureau	Reference Collection - Z1361.I8 C658
The Jewish community in America : an annotated and classified bibliographical guide	Reference Collection - Z6373.U5 B75

Web Resources
Office of Immigration Statistics	Provides access to Yearbook of Immigration Statistics.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement	Info about ICE mission and initiatives.
American Memory Historical Collection	This site, produced by the Library of Congress, is a collection of digitized documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, and text from the Library's 40 Americana collections.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services	Find information on the mission, strategies, goals, plans, budgets, statistics, accomplishments, and special programs.
Ellis Island Records	Search for records of immigrants processed at Ellis Island. View ship manifests and ships themselves.
Angel Island	"This document reproduces in its entirety a book published by The Women's American Baptist Home Missionary Society, Chicago, in 1917. It describes the processing of Asian immigrants through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay - the "Ellis Island" of the west. It also describes the various segments of San Francisco's Asian community, as perceived by a woman missionary."

Videos/Media
Abandoned: the betrayal of America's immigrants Media Video Coll: JV6483 .A22 2000	Films looks at the personal impact of new immigration laws in the U.S
Angel Island: a story of Chinese immigration Media Video Coll: F868.S156 A53 2002	From 1910 until 1943, Chinese immigrants to America passed through Angel Island in San Francisco Bay. Unlike other groups, the Chinese were legally discriminated against under an 1882 law called the Chinese Exclusion Act. This program looks at how two women--one an artist, the other a documentary filmmaker--are raising funds and awareness to have the old immigration station restored
Bharati Mukherjee : conquering America Media Video Coll: PR9499.3.M77 Z66 1994	In an interview of the writer, Bharati Mukherjee, by Bill Moyers, the former discusses America's newest Asian immigrants like herself, as well as the tension, struggles, and dreams in the enculturation process.
The Irish in America : long journey home Media Video Coll: E184.I6 I74 1998	With tender personal remembrances, rare archival images and the rousing music of some of today's most popular singers, this TV program traces the history of Irish immigrants in America from 1607 to modern times.
Journey to America Media Video Coll:  E184.A1 J68 1989	A tribute to over 12 million men, women and children who made the torturous journey from the old world to the new between 1890-1920 arriving at Ellis Island, New York.
Ellis Island Media Video Coll:  JV6484 .E54 1997	An historical and personal look at the people and history of Ellis Island. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin.
A Nation of Immigrants Media Video Coll:  E184.C5 N37 1999	Discusses immigration to the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on movement to the western region by immigrants from China.
The Ties that Bind Media Video Coll:  JV6483 .T53 1998	Looks at the human drama behind current debate over U.S. immigration policy. Presents the story of people and immigrants on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border.

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